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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Tag Archives: java
Teaching Kids to Program
Michael Kölling is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He was one of the the key developers of the BlueJ programming environment and is one of the authors of Objects First with Java. His … Continue reading
Tagged greenfoot, java, teaching programming, youtube
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Thoughts on "First Programming Languages"
Howard Lewis-Ship has blogged about the recommendation of Java as a First Language. This is a topic that has been exercising me for a couple of years (although I no longer teach an introductory programming course). Howard is right when … Continue reading
Java Real Time System (RTS) Interview
Version 2.0 of the RTS Specification (JSR 1.0) was announced in one of the Keynotes at JavaOne 2007. In Podcast #124, The Java Posse interview Greg Bollella and Dave Hofert of the Java RTS team. The interview gives a nice … Continue reading
Tagged java, javaone, podcasts, rts
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New Literate Program Published
I have published another literate program on literateprograms.org. This one shows how the Rot13 encoding system can be implemented in Java. However, that is trivial! The real point is to document the basic use of JUnit testing and Apache Ant … Continue reading
Tagged ant, example, java, junit, literate.program, rot13
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Groovy snowball ready to roll
I’ve been teaching Groovy as part of one of my final year bachelor modules for about two years now. My module EG-358: Software Applications gives a sort of overview of how software engineering is applied across the range of platforms … Continue reading
Tagged groovy, java, jvm, scripting
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